Larry Kramer Quotes

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.